A quick note on terminology

Last weekend, I was discussing getting together with a friend visiting from out of town, and emailed her to say that, since our original discussion, "a member of my chosen family" (meaning roadnotes) had become ill, so everything was in the air.

On Wednesday, that friend called to see about meeting for lunch (which turned out not to be practical) and asked "how's your other?" I blinked for a moment, then parsed that she was asking about Roadnotes,and said "much better." I added that if "if she was a sweetie I'd have said so"--I'm not exactly shy about my beloveds--but the terminology gets fuzzier for the people we love and choose as family who aren't romantic partners. My partners are family by choice, but they aren't the only family I've chosen.

A quick note on terminology

Last weekend, I was discussing getting together with a friend visiting from out of town, and emailed her to say that, since our original discussion, "a member of my chosen family" (meaning roadnotes) had become ill, so everything was in the air.

On Wednesday, that friend called to see about meeting for lunch (which turned out not to be practical) and asked "how's your other?" I blinked for a moment, then parsed that she was asking about Roadnotes,and said "much better." I added that if "if she was a sweetie I'd have said so"--I'm not exactly shy about my beloveds--but the terminology gets fuzzier for the people we love and choose as family who aren't romantic partners. My partners are family by choice, but they aren't the only family I've chosen.

Silly and cheering

We just watched the very first episode of The Electric Company. Fargo North, Decoder; Love of Chair; punctuation; the different pronunciations of 'g' (well, two of them: g as in gum and as in gym), special effects that look both psychedelic and very 1970s and which cattitude says came from a machine that ate most of their budget, Rita Moreno and Bill Cosby; crank calls on a phone that rang in Cosby's ice cream cart. Also a silly intro of people saying "hello" in lots of different ways, the sort of thing that you might do at the beginning of the first episode. And an animated 2001 pastiche, introducing "oo" as in boo ⇒ boom ⇒ bloom.

The DVD has four more episodes (not 2 through 5, but something like 26, 58, 342 and 798 (the label looks like 79B, but that seems unlikely)), which we'll watch later.

I'd had a long day, Cattitude is taking good care of me, and eel sushi followed by silly television helped. So did julian_tiger, who purred when it was needed most.

Silly and cheering

We just watched the very first episode of The Electric Company. Fargo North, Decoder; Love of Chair; punctuation; the different pronunciations of 'g' (well, two of them: g as in gum and as in gym), special effects that look both psychedelic and very 1970s and which cattitude says came from a machine that ate most of their budget, Rita Moreno and Bill Cosby; crank calls on a phone that rang in Cosby's ice cream cart. Also a silly intro of people saying "hello" in lots of different ways, the sort of thing that you might do at the beginning of the first episode. And an animated 2001 pastiche, introducing "oo" as in boo ⇒ boom ⇒ bloom.

The DVD has four more episodes (not 2 through 5, but something like 26, 58, 342 and 798 (the label looks like 79B, but that seems unlikely)), which we'll watch later.

I'd had a long day, Cattitude is taking good care of me, and eel sushi followed by silly television helped. So did julian_tiger, who purred when it was needed most.